Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-03-21
General News Items.

streets OF Montreal.
Professor Richard Chandler of North
Truro, Mass, is to start on a rowing voy-
age round the world.
Gladstone has informed his party that
he himself will lead the opposition to the
| coercion bill i'll Parliament.
Brigadier General Greeley has received
his commission as Chief Signal Officer to
succeed the late General Hazen.
a bill giving municipal suffrage to wo-
men, which had passed the New York SEN
ate, was defeated in the assembly.
Severe snowstorms are raging in the
north of Eng land and in Ireland and in
Scotland. A numDer of vessels have been
obliged TO put back for shelter.
The earthquake in the Riviera on
was most severe at Alassio. At an
other village fifteen houses were demol-
ished and two persons killed
Mr. Beecher's last meal. it is stated,
which he partook of after day of fatigu-
ing labor. was supper of roast clans.
His apoplectic stroke came before morn
ing.
At the British admiralty office in Lon
don it is officially denied that the Ameri-
can legation was in any way implicated
in the buying of certain naval designs
from government dIaugtsman.
The Treasury Department has received
about one hundred letters in answer to
Il circular inviting suggestions for the
better protection of life and property
from fire in case of accidents to railroad
cars and steamboats,.
Mr. Beecher is supposed to have left
about 1920, 900, mostly in personal prop
erty He received a salary of SIS 900 a
year, about $4,000 from his lectures and
81 900 from royalties on his books, be-
sides S75 week for his syndicate news
paper letter.
The blockade on the Canadian Pacific
in the Rocky Mountains is complete. and
there will be no through trains for a fort
night The snow has blockaded the roads,
and mud tunnel" has caved in. Passen-
gers who went West some DAYS ago. have
returned from the mountains, having been
unable to get through, and went south to
reach the coast by the American lines.
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Knott and Chief Clerk Nash, of the Post
office Department, returned to Washing
ton this morning from a trip to Kansas
City on the first train in the new fast mail
service to the West They report the
new service a complete success The
second mail train over this route made an
average of over % miles an hour between
Columbus, o., and St. Louis. ON some
portions of the route the train made 20
miles an hour.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says
the plot to assasinate the Car which was
to have been carried out last Sunday, was
arranged by members of the Terrorist
section Of the Nihilists. and no connection
with it has been traced to the faction
which i conducting the constitutionalist
agitation, although this faction has as
sumed the character Of secret society
with widespread rainifications. Several
hundred persons affiliated with the con-
stitutionalist agitation have, however. re-
Gently been arrested
The Sisters of Charity Of the Home for
Destitute Catholics, Boston. ask Us to in
form our readers that there are over 200
little boys and girls in that institution. Of
from 3 to II years of age, for whom they
desire to find homes in Catholic families
in the country These little ones are
bright, intelligent, healthy, and are not
children of criminal classes, but children
who have been deprived of their parents
or relations through death or misfortune.
The conditions upon which these children
are placed into families are very simple,
a recommendation from the resident priest
and a guarantee To the Home that they
will be kindly treated, and attend church
and school regularly. Char table persons
wishing TO provide for any If these poor
children are invited 10 address the Home
for Destitute Catholic Children, Harrison
Avenue, Boston.